Part 1 - Mapping Public Land Whitetails | Finding Public Land to Hunt 

Im a 26 yr old combat vet, and I was raised in an urban environment. Ive recently decided that learning how to hunt is likely going to be the best way to deal with ptsd. Videos like this are a godsend to folks like me who are trying to start from nothing and no knowledge. Thank you very much for making a video series like this.

Thanks for making this video series. I got interested in hunting, but it’s difficult because nobody helps new hunters these days because it gives away their “secrets”. I’m not ever asking them about their locations they hunt, rather how to find a suitable location to hunt. This helps a great deal. Maybe for the first time ever I’ll see an animal I’m trying to hunt this season!

This series is one of the most important series of videos on RU-vid for Public Land success! Don’t sleep on it people!!

So easy to talk about it all but man once you get boots on ground it's a different beast. Love it though. Great exercise too

I'm looking forward to this mini series... Great idea for the "THP" show.

Thank you very much for all you gave for this country....best wishes to you and your family

I'm excited for this series, this is going to be awesome!!!

Great info. Cant wait to watch this complete series. Yall have proved time and time again that your tactics work. Stay safe everybody

Hope to see lots of deer scouting & hunting videos coming up. The turkey series this spring was awesome.

Looking forward to this series. Thanks for making it. I recently got the trial version of Onx maps but wasn’t going to pay for it till your promo code. Thanks for that and thanks for focusing on public land because thats about all I have available to me in Missouri

That get me pumped for this up coming season!! I live in southern iowa and it has some of the best public land. Good luck boys! I might run into you guys this season.

Thanks a lot guys for the mapping whitetail playlist. It’s been super helpful and I just scouted some public land in PA( my home state) and kicked up some deer where normally when that happens I back out. But I kept pushing deeper and got eyes on a nice 10 point. So hopefully I can get an arrow in him this year. Thanks again

Woohoo!!! Finally...... here we go!!!

love this, it's going to be a great series

I always enjoy you public hunts. You guys do the work and have great results.

This is the kind of series introduction we need! Very useful information

Great video, very excited to see the rest of the series! I have hunted the same private ground my entire life and thanks to a job relocation I am going to public for the time being, started scouting last year, found a good area couple hundred acres. Thanks for the help and advice, On X is a gamechanger for new areas. Now roll the rest of them out so I don't have to keep watching this one!

OnX is a great app!! I've been really happy with it so far!!

I got onX last year, and when the free trial ran out there was no hesitating to buy a subscription for my state because I used it so much. It's been very useful to me

Lookin forward to this series. I hunt private and public. The patch of public ground is surrounded by private on 3 sides and is 100 acres. Alot of deer sign but didnt see much ppl sign. Its on the outer edge of the big chunk of conservation ground. Draws, crp, crops, and a small ditch runs through it

Thanks guys for another great video. I need a series like this to help me improve my game.

Thank for developing and producing this video series. I have been searching for a mapping software like OnX and this tutorial series was perfect. I am headed out for a remote moose hunt in Maine and this software is exactly what I need to help pre-scout prior to heading north. Thank you!

Love the show! first thing I said to myself after I got done watching the series looks like I'm going to Iowa.lol I don't think amateur hunters realize how much time you put in to see all those beautiful bucks! Shout out from Wisconsin we like to grow them big here as well and have great public resources and cheap out-of-state licenses.

Great video. Can't wait for the others.

THP I been invited to do an elk hunt in New Mexico hahaha just in time I got the app for scouting whitetail now I got to scout for elk. Y’all done got me started!!!!!!

Try the OnX app, you will not be disappointed, we added this in the spring turkey season and am very very happy with it. Found land that we thought was private that is public and holds some good bucks that we will hunt this fall. Will be renewing our subscription next year for sure. We are in Oklahoma and some of the areas are not marked very well.

Awesome! Thanks for the very informative tips! Subbed!

OnX maps is worth its weight in gold, awesome app

Will I'm going to be comment #117. So I better make it a good one. You guys have made my understanding of where and wean on whitetail spot on. Also reading and understanding topo maps. My girlfriend calls it map hunting and keeping it mobel. Thanks guys!!!!!!

Thank you very much for your series! I have appreciated watching the videos alot. I have not hunted since I have gotten out the military about 3 years ago. I got lucky enough that someone has given me a bow and fell in love with the technicality and art of shooting it. The only problem I have is selecting the right public to hunt down here in Pierre Part, Louisiana and was wondering if y'all would be able to help?

First off OnX is fantastic. Secondly make sure not to get so stuck on public land. At least here in Wisconsin there is MFL land that is private and will show up as private, but in reality anyone is free to go hunt it whenever they want without the need of permission. The Wisconsin has a great website to look up MFL properties. I am sure many states have similar programs opening up land to hunters.

Bow-only land is a good feature to look for as well but doesn't always align with #1 on the list.

I am super excited about this series! I have hunted public land in Indiana for just a couple years, and these really technical videos are very helpful in learning to break down a property.

Oh man can’t believe i didn’t find this channel earlier!

Please show us tree stand and ground blind sites when you go out to the land. I’m in the Army and was injured. After 21 surgeries it’s getting hard to hang stands and I saw you guys use ghillie suits last year to kill a nice buck. Thanks

Hey my grandma lives on that lake. Sun Valley Lake. Grew up fishing that.

Are you guys going to make a video on States you’re hunting this year

Need some advice. Live on a farm and we have some good bucks on cameras this year the spot I'm hunting is an old pasture that has a creek bottom below the stand I put up a fence line going into another property that was just logged in the fall. Several piles of tree tops all along the fence line and located in that property. With a group of about 6 or 7 pines on the ridge overlooking the creek bottom. I never hunt this stand until November but with the logging occurring last year I never hunted it as they logged the entire hunting season. My belief is the deer will head for that logged property to bed and they come down into the woods in the morning after feeding in our cornfields just across the road. Is the stand gonna be a bust this year or could it possibly be the best stand I have this year? Thought?

I love your mapping software and your videos. I hunt in Central Mass and finding a spot to myself is tough, even with dwindling hunter numbers. I've been scanning my Onx maps trying to find some new areas to hunt as everything I've grown up with has dried up, turned into neighborhoods, or been posted. Is there anywhere I can ask for help e-scouting an area near my home?

When the folks in the big cities watch this video they're going to be out there with you guys. I tell no one secrets

Like always great info, definitely hit up mid mo, tons of public land, which yas know, but it's all over around here! Everyone puts down Missouri, huge deer here though! Need extras hit me up I'd love an opportunity...

Is there anyway you could break down a piece of public in the south at some point? I'm in South Carolina for instance and the public land around me (Sumter National Forest) looks way different than some of the western WMA. Would you approach your scouting different?

Where I am there are alot of state and federal preserves and conservancy land with hiking trail etc. What's your opinion on finding good areas in that situation?

Great video, excited to see where this goes. Would love the OnX option but in the PA public area I hunt the cell service is a no go...not sure OnX has any other options for the non cell coverage areas. Keep up the great work guys!

I’ve started squirrel hunting in a local WMA that is about 11,000 acres. According to state reports only about 50 deer were harvested last year. Do you think this means the hunting pressure is low or something else? I’ve seen pretty heavy sign in creek beds and hope to do more scouting soon.

Hello,Me and my wife are learning to hunt public land Due to loosing are hunting spot to the property owners son in law and these videos are very helpful. We would like to really thank you for such great videos but we are really not that well with electronics or apps if you guys could do a video on how to use the on x app a little more detailed would be greatly appreciated thanks so much

Great video as always. Which show did you say THP crew was going to be at in WI in August? I was thinking of stopping in and walking through the show. Thank you

Plot twist everyone watching this now go to over look areas so now it’s packed with people lol

I hunt primarily in Ohio big timber hill country, often it is difficult to find public land that has a mixture of different terrain features. Yes there are creek bottoms within the timber but not a lot of CRP, grasslands, etc. Would you still circle a piece like this despite being uniform terrain?

Can you do a video of picking stand locations for different times of deer season. Like early season, all parts of the rut and late season

Will a buck exit its bed in the afternoon with the wind behind his back or walking into the wind? This buck lives in a big cattail marsh, right on the edge. A lot of human pressure with walking but never hunted. This spot over looked in many ways because it's all cattails and little to no trees to climb. Thanks

Appreciate the insight Aaron. Always very beneficial information from you and the guys. When you guys hunt new areas like this do you try to set up the first couple days as observation sits or do you dive right in to an area? I was curious as to how you guys would approach it trying not to push to far into the deer. Thanks, Bryan

How do I tell where I can hunt? I plan on hunting the Horicon marsh in Wisconsin and part is public hunting some is “wildlife sanctuary” and some is “habitat restoration”.

While using OnX on your cell phone, how do you combat cell coverage and dying batteries in cold weather? Thanks. Great vid!

How did you know the first area was hardwood. How could you tell that by the topo?

What zone in Iowa are you looking at here?

How do you determine that a piece of property is public and you can hunt it?

Tour name should be "Boot Burner Tour" great show.

I’ve been hunting a certain deer all season in an Alabama WMA and We’re in the rut and I’ve found an amazing scrape line and ALOT of very nice rubs (ones on a tree the diameter of a 5 gallon bucket) I thought I was the only one who knew about this spot (I’m not now I found a game camera yesterday)it’s killing me trying to find the buck bedding spot… i need help I’ve got the exact stuff I’ve found on ONX however I’m scared I’m gonna spook this buck I’m hunting and I’m trying to figure out where to hang a stand… can u please help me

How can you tell what trees are what on a map.

I thought I was about to see Bob Ross. :)

I have on x maps and my map layers will not load have you ever had this problem if so what can I do to fix this? I have done everything I can think of it have un installed and re installed without change. My Internet connection is good so I have no idea what is wrong.

Does the coupon code apply when purchasing the chip and app? THP isn’t working for me.

Tips for scouting swamp land in south Louisiana?

Does it cost to hunt Public land?

Plz come to North Carolina

Gotta get me one of those hats!!!

Love your guys content but, at what point does it become hey come to this area to hunt. You guys know if anyone hears you are hunting an area that tons of people will be there next week. Does that make the hunting experience worse or better? As a iowa hunter it sucks when you see more hunters than animals.

I'm a new hunter. I'm having trouble finding deer

I tried the promo code THP but it's not working any ideas?

When hunting public land do you look for ridges to hunt and higher ground what if you are hunting somewhere that’s is mostly woods but 90% flat ground then what do you do look for bedding and set up on It or dropping foot prints what makes you say this is where I’m going to hunt if you were going in blind didn’t glass anything or see anything on cameras or with your own eyes what is the this is it moment for you

On x has 7 day free trial but once you pick a state nothing happens.

I can't use the promo code

Can you guys come help me find some bucks on Georgia public land?

Something I do is use B&C P&Y records to find top counties or units to hunt then start with what you guys are doing. Check out my profile pic! 201 3/8

where I hunt you can't even really get a cell phone signal

Boo! Stop telling everybody where it's at! Lol